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Showing posts with label progressives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressives. Show all posts
Friday, January 1, 2010

Letter to the Olive Press

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Dear Editor: One of my neighbors took some offense at my recent characterization of Democrats as thieves in the pages of the Olive Press. ...
Friday, December 12, 2008

David Horowitz on the Birth Certificate: An Anti-Federalist's Response

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David Horowitz recently wrote an important Frontpagemag editorial that argued that conservatives should drop the birth certificate issue: ...
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Monday, August 4, 2008

The Progressives' Sleight of Hand

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In the nineteenth century, "progress" meant technological and economic progress. Whig economists like Henry Carey believed in prog...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Elitism in American History

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Progressivism and social democracy are democratic liberal doctrines that introduce the possibility of an activist, authoritarian state that ...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Gerald W. McFarland's Mugwumps, Morals and Politics, 1884-1920

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Gerald W. McFarland. Mugwumps, Morals and Politics 1884-1920. Amherst, Ma: University of Massachusetts Press, 1975. 291 pages. Gerald W. McF...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Democratic versus Achievement Motives in American History

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David M. Tucker. Mugwumps: Public Moralists of The Gilded Age. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 139 pp. David M. Tucker...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

John "Zippy" Callister, Doug Ross and the MSM's Three Biggest Lies

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Doug Ross has an interesting blog about John "Zippy" Callister's letter to the Wall Street Journal (courtesy of Larwyn). Mr....
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Richard Hofstadter's Age of Reform

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Richard Hofstadter. Age of Reform . New York: Vintage Books, 1955. I just had the privilege to read Richard Hofstadter's 1955 Age of Ref...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Peter Levine's "New Progressive Era"

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I had previously blogged about Peter Levine's New Progressive Era when I was starting it. Now that I've finished it, I conclude tha...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Liberals Should Be Called "Suppressives" Rather Than "Progressives"

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I have recently blogged about Peter Levine's book New Progressive Era and note that although Levine claims that public deliberation ou...